Wednesday, 27 January 2010 09:42 Last Updated on Friday, 29 January 2010 12:44 Written by Michael Ballard

Last week we installed one of the coolest demos I have had in the EBC since PaPeRo.  It’s a facial recognition software that can detect your age, race and gender.  This demographic information could be used, in a digital signage environment, to present you with targeted advertising based on your demographics. 

 

For the most part the prototype has been pretty accurate.  Every once and a while it thinks I’m the age of my parents (must be the reflection from my bald head).  As long as I don’t start to get an ad that tells me I should take advantage of the new SENIOR DISCOUNTS, I’m OK with it. 

NEC has been a leader in the biometrics space for over 40 years and recently won a content sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security for the greatest accuracy with facial recognition.  Their False Rejection Rate was 2.1% and False Acceptance Rate was .1%.  I’m still deciding if I should be afraid or excited.

 

More on NEC’s Facial Recognition

More on the Biometrics Contest

More on PaPeRo

More on the NEC Executive Briefing Center

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Tuesday, 12 January 2010 13:46 Last Updated on Friday, 29 January 2010 13:15 Written by Michael Ballard

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Tuesday, 12 January 2010 12:37 Written by Kris Kozamchak

NEC will be showing off our latest solutions for IBM Lotus Foundations at the upcoming IBM Lotusphere conference in Orlanda, January 17-21.  Stop by the NEC booth (207-209) and ask for a demonstration.

Also, look for NEC's announcements with IBM on Monday, January 18.
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Wednesday, 16 December 2009 17:39 Last Updated on Monday, 25 January 2010 17:25 Written by Kris Kozamchak

There are companies that are good at R&D and then there are companies that are GREAT at R&D and come up with innovative ideas and products that just blow your mind.  NEC is one of those GREAT R&D companies. You may have read in previous blogs about the LCD microcontroller for home power management or translation glasses or the application that let's you translate text into emoticons.  These are just a few of the cool new technologies that are coming from NEC.

What really caught my attention was an announcement from NEC Corporation about the successful integration of NanoBridge in the CU Interconnects of Si LSI.  On first glance you may ask, "What?"

Technology, like chips for cell phones and computers, can only be so small.  But imagine developing a technology that increases the operational speed and lowers the power consumption so that on a single chip, you are only using a fraction of the space.

We complain today that the apps on our iPhone are too slow or we have too many programs open on our computer and it is slowing us down.  With more powerful chips in our devices, we will be able to talk, text, and type and not worry about slowing down.
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